Business Intelligence
Pentaho is a Business Intelligence software company that offers Pentaho Business Analytics, a suite of open source products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.
The Pentaho suite consists of two offerings, an enterprise and community edition. The enterprise edition contains extra features not found in the community edition. The enterprise edition is obtained through an annual subscription and includes extra support services. Pentaho's core offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the form of plug-ins, from the company itself and also the broader community of users and enthusiasts. The table below summarizes the most popular products and plug-ins in the Pentaho ecosystem.
Talend leverages the open source model to make data integration available to all types of organizations, regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints. Talend’s solutions connect to all source and target systems and they can be downloaded at no cost. Talend also offers data quality solutions, fully complementary to its data integration solutions.
Sisense is a business intelligence and data analytics software that lets non-techies join, analyze, and visualize multiple large data sets in interactive dashboards.
Google Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. Dashboarding allows you to tell great data stories to support better business decisions.
Data Studio provides easy access to all the data sources you need to understand your business and make better decisions. Regardless of whether you’re a business user or a data analyst, and no matter where the data lives, simply access it with a pre-built Data Studio connector. Data Studio handles the authentication, access rights, and structuring of the data. Once a data source is connected, the underlying dimensions and metrics are readily available for use in calculations, transformations, and visualizations.
With Data Studio you’ll be able to transform your raw data into the metrics and dimensions needed to create easy-to-follow reports and dashboards. Simple solutions help you cleanse, combine, and transform all your data without writing code or creating SQL queries.
Data Studio provides:
- A visual editor for easy creation of reports and dashboards.
- A rich library of visualizations to reveal the real story behind the data.
- Fully custom design and style controls so you can make it your own.
- Reusable templates for fast, professional reports every time.
- Dynamic and interactive report controls based on time periods, geographies, segments, or any other dimension available in your data.
- Seamless integration between data, analysis, and reporting for easy workflows.
- All with built in sharing and collaboration - both within and outside the walls of your company.
Power BI for Office 365 is a self-service business intelligence (BI) solution delivered through Excel and Office 365 that provides information workers with data analysis and visualization capabilities to identify deeper business insights about their data. With Power BI for Office 365, you can connect to data in the cloud or extend your existing on-premises data sources and systems to quickly build and deploy self-service BI solutions hosted in Microsoft’s trusted enterprise cloud.
With Power BI for Office 365, you can do more with your data:
-- Analyze and present insights with Excel in compelling visual formats from data either on premises or in the cloud. -- Share reports and datasets online with data that is always kept up to date. -- Access and stay connected to data and reports from your mobile devices wherever you are.
